Photograph by Bobby Scheidemann

Erina Duganne is Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University. In her research and teaching, she focuses on art and visual culture in the United States with a concentration on artist activism, global feminisms, and documentary practices. Her forthcoming projects include Dreams of a Continent: Artists’ Solidarity with Central America, supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, Feminist Visual Solidarities and Kinships, co-edited with Susan Richmond and Genevieve Hyacinthe, and a second edition of Global Photography: A Critical History, co-authored with Terri Weissman and Heather Diack.

Additional publications by Duganne include Cold War Camera (2022), co-edited with Thy Phu and Andrea Noble; Global Photography: A Critical History (2020), co-authored with Heather Diack and Terri Weissman; The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography (2010); and Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain (2007), co-edited with Mark Reinhardt and Holly Edwards. In 2022, Duganne co-curated Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities with Abigail Satinsky at the Tufts University Art Galleries. The exhibition traveled to the University of New Mexico Art Museum and DePaul Art Museum. She is also Editor of the Americas of the journal Photography & Culture and co-editor with Tatiana Flores of the book series Feminist Art Histories with Rutgers University Press.

Email: ed17@txstate.edu